Exercise Diary Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Exercise Diary hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted workout tracker with a GitHub-style year heat map, so you can see how consistent your training is. Deploy Exercise Diary from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 0.1.9 image with embedded SQLite storage behind a gateway that asks for a generated Basic Authentication login, mounts a volume for the diary and publishes it over HTTPS.

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What is Exercise Diary?

Exercise Diary is described in its README as a workout diary with GitHub-style year visualization. The template README says you define exercises, log sets with weight and repetitions, record body weight, and review statistics and heat maps. It is a small Go application with an embedded SQLite database. Self-hosted Exercise Diary is a workout log you run yourself instead of a fitness app's cloud. It is licensed under MIT.

On xCloud this template deploys Exercise Diary 0.1.9 from the upstream image, pinned by digest, behind a Caddy gateway that requires an HTTP Basic login on every request. Its configuration and database sit on the exdiary_data volume. There are no per-user accounts: everyone with the shared password sees and edits the same diary. The pages load their stylesheets and chart library from a public CDN in your browser.

From Sign-Up to a Live Exercise Diary In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Exercise Diary normally means a container, a gateway, a domain and a certificate before a single set is logged. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Exercise Diary from the OneClick catalog, choose a domain, and keep or change the login username (default admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up Exercise Diary 0.1.9 behind a Caddy gateway, generate the login password, mount the data volume, and publish it over HTTPS.
Step 03
Sign In And Log Your First Set
Open your HTTPS URL and sign in with the username and generated password from your installation credentials, click Add to create your first exercise, then log it as today's set.

Everything Exercise Diary Does, On Your Own Server

Exercise Diary runs in full here — exercise definitions, set logging, the year heat map and statistics, on infrastructure you control.

Exercises By Group
Define your exercises once, then log each day's sets with weight and repetitions.
GitHub-Style Year Heat Map
See training consistency on a year heat map, plus per-exercise statistics over time.
Body Weight Over Time
Record body weight alongside your workouts to track both in one place.
Themes, Light And Dark Mode
Pick from many Bootstrap themes, light or dark mode, and a custom heat-map colour.
Very Light Footprint
A small Go binary with an embedded SQLite database — nothing extra to run.
Your Diary, Your Server
Exercises, logged sets and settings persist on one volume, surviving a restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Workout Log 24/7

Managed hosting for Exercise Diary, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Exercise Diary 0.1.9 deployed instantly
Site-wide password protection
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Share one login with training partners
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Exercise Diary

A self-hosted fitness log for your own data
You keep exercises, sets and body weight in a SQLite file on a server you rent instead of an app account you do not control.
See training consistency at a glance
You open the year heat map and spot the weeks you trained and the gaps, without exporting anything to a spreadsheet.
Log sets as you train
At the gym you add an exercise once, then log each set with weight and repetitions from your phone's browser.
Share one diary with a partner
Two people who train together use the same shared login to see one combined diary, accepting that there are no separate accounts.

Exercise Diary vs Alternatives

Strong: Exercise Diary keeps your sets in your own SQLite database on your server, with a deliberately small feature set. This page makes no feature-parity claim with Strong.
Hevy: Choose self-hosted Exercise Diary when you want a lightweight log you control, and accept that it has one shared login rather than accounts. This page makes no feature-parity claim with Hevy.
wger: wger is a separate self-hosted fitness manager with its own OneClick page, with accounts, routines and nutrition. Exercise Diary is much smaller and focuses on a log and heat map.
FitTrackee: FitTrackee is a separate self-hosted workout tracker with its own OneClick page, built around activity files such as runs and rides. Exercise Diary is for logging gym-style sets.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Exercise Diary hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More exercises, more logged history, more stats.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Exercise Diary alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Exercise Diary itself is free under the MIT licence.

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Ready To Own Your Workout Log?

Exercise Diary on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own your data. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Exercise Diary open source?

Yes. Exercise Diary is released under the MIT open-source licence, which is linked here at the pinned 0.1.9 tag. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Exercise Diary, and there is no per-user fee. The workout data sits in a SQLite file on your own server.

Can you self-host Exercise Diary with Docker?

Yes, and this Exercise Diary Docker hosting template does it for you: the upstream aceberg/exercisediary image, pinned by digest, runs beside a Caddy gateway on your own server, with HTTPS in front. It is not an Exercise Diary cloud account, so your diary stays on your server.

How much RAM does Exercise Diary need?

Exercise Diary asks for at least 256 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 2 GB of disk in its manifest. Upstream publishes no RAM figure, and the app is a small Go binary with SQLite. The 6 GB tier sold here is far more than it uses.

How do I sign in to Exercise Diary?

Your browser asks for the username and generated password shown after install, because the gateway enforces an HTTP Basic login on every page and request. Change them in the Environment editor and redeploy, since both are applied on every start. Keep the password private.

Is Exercise Diary multi-user?

No. There are no per-user accounts, so everyone who knows the shared password sees and edits the same diary. If two people need separate histories, run two instances. This page does not claim any multi-user support, and there is no way to give someone read-only access.

Should I enable the app's own login screen?

No. In this release the app's own login redirects to its login page but still runs the requested page or action, so on its own it would not protect the diary. That is why the gateway Basic login is the real access control. Leave the app's login switched off.

Does Exercise Diary track body weight?

Yes. The template README says you can record body weight alongside your logged sets and review statistics and heat maps. An exercise's image is only a URL string, because the app does not upload or store images, so any pictures load from wherever you point them.

Does the UI load anything from outside my server?

Yes. The pages load Bootstrap, Chart.js and icons from cdn.jsdelivr.net in your browser, so that host must be reachable from wherever you open the diary. The workout data itself is not sent there. Keep this in mind for locked-down networks or offline use.

How do I back up Exercise Diary?

Back up the exdiary_data volume, which holds config.yaml and sqlite.db, while the app is idle. Keep an off-server copy and test a restore on a disposable install. Never use a command that deletes volumes during maintenance, because the diary lives only in that volume.

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How do I upgrade Exercise Diary?

Catalog updates leave your 0.1.9 diary alone; moving to a newer template version is your call. Back up the volume first and read the upstream release notes, because versions below 1.0 can change behaviour between releases.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.